Kamonnart Ongwandee is a designer and consultant advocating for circular design at the intersection between fashion, textiles, and crafts practices. She is now a project manager for CIRCO Hub Thailand, creating business through circular design. After winning the CIMB Asean Scholarship, which helps to promote craft culture in Southeast Asia, Kamonnart earned a Master’s in Textiles at the Royal College of Art in London. She began her career as a print and fashion designer before dedicating her energy to the Fashion Revolution movement in Thailand, which activates a community of conscious consumers and promotes sustainable businesses in the design community. Kamonnart is also an honouree for the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in the Arts category 2020, Generation T Asia List 2019, member of Circular Design Lab Bangkok and Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Circular Economy Pioneers community in South East Asia. With work experiences in Bangkok, London and Paris, she is now also a speaker and visiting lecturer at Chulalongkorn University on Creative Textiles.

The circular economy is the way to achieve sustainability that balances profit, people, and planet. Circular design activates entrepreneurs and creative professionals to (re)design products, services and business models in order to identify business opportunities. Using circular design strategies, The CIRCO methodology offers a design approach with which you design your circular value proposition and subsequently conduct circular business.. With a unique and proven design thinking method, it helps companies with creating circular business propositions in cooperation with their value chain. as CIRCO Hub Thailand project manager, Kamonnart believes that design plays a crucial role in enabling the circular transition. With this ambition, CIRCO developed a circular design programme. Since 2015, CIRCO has supported over 900 companies to create circular business and trained hundreds of designers to play their role as circular change agents.